CVE-2013-3582
Buffer overflow in Dell BIOS on Dell Latitude D###, E####, XT2, and Z600 devices, and Dell Precision M#### devices, allows local users to…
- 7.6HighCVSS base score
- 2.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 15% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Buffer overflow in Dell BIOS on Dell Latitude D###, E####, XT2, and Z600 devices, and Dell Precision M#### devices, allows local users to bypass intended BIOS signing requirements and install arbitrary BIOS images by leveraging administrative privileges and providing a crafted rbu_packet.pktNum value in conjunction with a crafted rbu_packet.pktSize value.
Timeline
ID reserved
By certcc
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.6 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.6% · top 15% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- VU#912156 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- https://www.blackhat.com/us-13/archives.html#Butterworth (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://media.blackhat.com/us-13/US-13-Butterworth-BIOS-Security-Slides.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://media.blackhat.com/us-13/US-13-Butterworth-BIOS-Security-WP.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/BLUU-99HSLA (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-3516 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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